Category: News

from WashingtonPost.com | August 15, 2016 Anna Gorman An increasing number of elderly patients nationwide are on multiple medications to treat chronic diseases, raising their chances of dangerous drug interactions and serious side effects. Often the drugs are prescribed by different specialists who don’t communicate with each other. If those patients are hospitalized, doctors making the […]

from McKnight’s | July 14, 2016 Five of the six new quality measures for skilled nursing facilities announced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be phased into the Five-Star Quality Ratings system on July 27, CMS officials said on Thursday. The confirmation came from Ed Mortimore, technical director of survey and certification at […]

from BostonGlobe.com | July 7, 2016 Health care is always personal. As science and technology have advanced, it’s become possible to make it personalized as well, giving us the tools to better understand, prevent, and treat everyone’s individual health needs. We wouldn’t buy a pair of glasses that doesn’t match our eyesight, and though plenty of […]

from HealthcareDive.com | May 27, 2016 The Department of Labor’s (DOL) final overtime rule, announced two weeks ago, raises the salary threshold to qualify for overtime from $23,660 to $47,476, affecting 4.2 million Americans. The salary threshold was last raised in 2004, and the recent ruling marks the first time overtime eligibility has been raised so drastically. […]

from Healthcare Finance News   |   April 22, 2016 A new report by credit ratings agency Fitch claims 2015 was the first year since 2008 to see growth in inpatient hospital admissions at major for-profit hospitals, but analysts don’t expect that to continue. For the full year, Fitch said these hospitals saw 0.75 percent growth […]

from Modern HealthCare   |   April 21, 2016 The CMS has dropped three payment rules that propose increased payments to skilled-nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and hospice care, and implemented new quality measures. The agency Thursday proposed nearly doubling the increase skilled-nursing facilities received last year. This would amount to a $800 million bump. Last year […]

from Senior Housing News   |   April 13, 2016 April brings budding trees and the start of baseball season, but does it also bring a change in the mix of skilled nursing facility residents? It’s possible, if The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) is to be believed. The organization on Wednesday provided […]